Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-17
THE NEWS.


The Cincinnati Sun Has been ordered
sold on February %.
Cotton crop of 1886 was 6.46O.OOO
bales of superior quality.
Camden's chances for U s senator 10
West Virginia are decidedly small.
Oil has been struck in paying quaint
ties at Erancisvilie, Pulaski county. Ind.
Robert Crawford, st Adams, Va, lost
two legs by jumping on moving train
Wspakoneta, O.. has struck 400 barr
rel oil well accompanied by a big flow
of gas.
Prof Ashburner announces that there
is an abundance of natural gas under
st Louis
Jacob Hockenberger, of Toledo. O.,
has been fined Sl0O ror selling liquor on
Sunday.
Dayton, O., has been redistrlcted, and
the Democrats are very much hurt over
the change.
Illinois will send five commissioners
to represent that state at the Cincinnati
Centennial.
Minister Pendleton's friends state
that his return has no connection with
cabinet changes.
Mr. John W Book walter, of SpIing>
field, is mentioned as candidate for
govenor again.
Two million feet of saw-logs. at Lock
Haven, Pa, were swept away by the
breaking of a boom,
Secretary Manning has been elected
President of the new Western National
Bank, of New York.
Judge Nicholas Longworth, of Gin
cinnati is waking cruise of the Medi-
Iterreanean in a yatch.
Mrs Henry Wood, the English novel
ist, author of East Lynne, died in Lon
don. Thursday, aged 81.
VIM Gallagher, engaged in the elecr
tion fraud in Chicago, will spend one
year in the penitentiary.
It is reported that several of Hulli'
ligan's muIderers are hiding IN the
swamps near Hartville, o.
Independent pipe line companies are
trying TO crowd the Standard Oil Co.,
out of the Lima, (O9 field.
The General Manager of the B s. o
Express Co., denies that the Adams has
or will absorb that company.
Nick Mumbaugh and Louis Klipp
were killed by suffocatioD while clean
inn onf u hoiln- af Cirord n
The l, B w Ry., is TO be sold by
order U S court, and no bid of less than
ST., 100000 will be entertained.
Bill for establishment Of Z sub-treas-
ury at Louisville reported adversely to
TO home committee on finance.
Two colored children, aged six and
seven, at Danville, KY, quarreled, and
the older choked the other to death.
Two hundred strikers at the Chant
pion mine, Marqutte, Mich. have re
turned to work. without making their
point.
Abraham Beers, Decater, Ind, tif>
teen-year-old sleep-walker. wandered
from home at night, and cannot be
found.
John C Leighton, for nineteen years
clerk of the Municipal Criminal court of
Boston. it is reported is short about
100000.
A joint resolution submitting the
question of prohibition to vote of the
people, passed the Pennsylvania House
by 1SO to 60.
A vein of copper ore is reported dis
covered on the banks of the Merrimac
river at and below Indian Orchard
Point, Mass.
Capt A Lilly, aged u, veteran of
the Seminole, Mexican and civil wars
was run over and killed by street car
in Dayton, o.
Jacob Miller, an Ohio Quaker, who
went to Atlanta with funds to purchase
land for a colony, was robbed in that
city of $500.
Mary Byrne, whose leg was chrushed
seventeen years ago by train on the
New York Central, has just received
$500 damages.
Mrs Gen. Logan left Washington
Saturday for Chicago, where she will
qualify as administrators of her late
husbands estate.
Powderly has declared that the ext
preston of sympathy for the Chicago
Anarchists is against the principles of
the knights of Labor.
Gov Beaver, of Pennsylvania, has
signed the joint resolution for the subj
mission of prOhioitory constitutional
amendment to the people.
The body of John Keetb, Green coun>
ty, Ky, was discovered wrapped up In a
blanket in the carcass of a horse. 1t is
supposed he was murdered.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
pronounced the inter State commerce
bill exceptionally favorably to their
freight business throus hout their entire
system.
Henry Durham, his wife and infant
child were horribly murdered on the
Durham farm ten miles east of Warsaw,
Ind, by unknown parties. Durham's
face WAS eaten away by hogs.
Democrats in North Carolina and
virginia very SenoidIIy express Cne
opinion that the party has been greatly
hurt by the failure to repeal the tax on
tobacco and fruit Installations.
1t is now almost certain that the dead
body found in the Wabash. near La
fayette, Ind, is that of Miss Babbitt,
who is supposed to have been murdered
by Amer C Green, friend who took
| her buggy-riding.
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